the lamp project

Creator

This is a playful, imaginative art
experience where animation is video mapped onto an existing inner city
building, bringing to life the domestic scenes of the characters who live in
the apartments inside.

Live actors inside the
building play multiple characters who are seen
through existing windows by the public in the street. Their actions
are timed in with the animation which is video projected around the windows.

A series of playful, magical scenes
develop, based on typical domestic situations. The life-blood of the apartment
building are the electricity cables, which animatedly grow like vines from a
fuse box at ground floor. They twist around the rooms, extending out into lamps
and furniture, giving light and life to the domestic scenes within.
Relationships between characters in six to twelve different windows develop as
the building itself takes on an appearance similar to that of a graphic novel:
an older woman tries to steal the shadow of a young girl as she waters her
plants, a couple kiss without realizing that the carton of milk he dropped has
spilt and is now flooding the whole building. The old man fallen asleep in
front of the television doesn’t see animals leaping out of the TV screen to
rest on other window frames. A woman plays piano and sings, the sound of her
voice flowing out over the building front and into the audience below, while
the animation and the other live characters move in time to her rhythm.

This work is currently in development. Barcelona/Christchurch 2015.

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